false 38 277 241 true 5717362 read 15 true 102583 currently-reading 21 true 102582 to-read 25 false 3283792 the-best 18 false 596285 boughtbutnotread http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75534985 to: American Exorcism (Paperback) by Michael W. Cuneo
i was pleasantly surprised that this book was not just a badly written, sensational piece of fluff. cuneo clearly did his research and writes in a mildly academic manner. most thankfully, he is a hard sell, not overeager to validate the stories of heads spinning and bodies levitating and in fact, at the end of the book, still extremely skeptical of the existence of demons.
still, the book gets quite repetitive and despite the fact that he is a professor, never gets deep enough or academic enough to be a solid examination of the subject. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74217788 The Jungle Books (Volume 1) by Rudyard Kilping
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book/recommendation/619191 aya made a comment on Michelle's recommendation of Death Note Box Set to aya: when did you become all asian!?! i've actually been meaning to read this for a while now. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73475782 to: The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld (Hardcover) by Tom Folsom
Great premise and subject matter, horrible execution. Badly organized, spotty, overly novelistic and unfocused. A book that has the sentence, "he didn't know nothing" and isn't dialogue is hard to take seriously. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72719387 to: Holler If You Hear Me (Paperback) by Michael Eric Dyson
one of the worst books i have ever wasted my time on. first of all, barely about tupac. if michael dyson could create more nuanced and intelligent arguments, still could have been interesting. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70652810 to: Terry Richardson: Kibosh (Hardcover) by Terry Richardson
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70652709 to: The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School; Claudine in Paris; Claudine Married; Claudine and Annie (Paperback) by Colette
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70652257 to: Incest (Hesperus Classics) by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
very surprised that it was so moralizing, whether or not it was supposed to be ironically so. this was not the juicy shit i was looking for! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67693843 to: Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus (Paperback) by Charles Mingus
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